Today’s Comic-Con Countdown Notes

* this is the last informal countdown-style update. I'll try to have some kind of ramp-up notes the next two days. Although the San Diego con doesn't officially begin until Thursday morning, I figure the thing starts when enough people to fill one of the bigger halls touch down at the airport. A quorum for a meeting of the World Nerd Parliament, if there was one. The day that happens would be Tuesday. So any countdown has to be over.

* as expected, the convention has announced a Saturday sell-out. This means that in addition to the four-day pass sell-out they won't be selling single-day passes for Saturday, either, and I wouldn't want to be a press person trying to register for that day and that day only, either. It's my understanding that there will likely be some pro registration taking place that day because there will be enough of an influx of LA-based professionals that have no idea the con is sold out that turning them away would be a train wreck.

* speaking of the press, which I just sort of did, I received my press pass confirmation via an e-mail on Thursday. My hunch is that it doesn't mean you're totally screwed if you don't have one yet. I might be slightly worried, though, and I would make doubly sure I had my credentials together when I hit the convention hall.

* did you know that Fanfare/Ponent Mon was going to be exhibiting? You would read if you read CR's comics-focused convention PR dump.

* if anyone wants to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) commentary on experiences had at the convention or photos or a Xerox of an arrest sheet or whatever rather than putting them up in some space of their own, I'll run just about anything I receive that's even halfway coherent under the First Person designation in the News section to your right. I'll run links, too, in a collective memory starting a day or two after the con. I imagine most people have a home for this stuff or a paying gig somewhere, but in case you have no on-line home or want a new credit on the resume, I'm here for you.

* this is the funniest link I've seen this month: someone bringing our attention to this week's liquor sales at Ralph's. It's not the most useless, either. Samuel Adams' Boston Lager would be a fine, sturdy room beer.

* Paul Pope recommends the Alex Toth documentary panel. I hope that everyone out there picks out at least one comics or comics-related panel to see.
 
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